Photo by Leo C. Curran

What is the Ara Pacis?

Here are a couple of links to explain about

this famous monument of Ancient Rome:

Ara Pacis, the museum

Ara Pacis Tour

The Ara Apacis (Wikipedia)

AraPacis

Band History

AraPacis was formed in early 2003 with the goal of recreating some of the original aspects of the 70s era's hard rock and progressive music and allying it with a 00s prog, doom and gothic metal feel, to make an interesting hybrid. We have played shows such as the Hard Rock Cafe Montreal, and opening for Anvil and Raven, etc. The present line-up dates from Feb. 2008.

Our debut CD came out in April 2006 and we're presently recording our 2nd one and doing plenty of shows.

Influences: Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Mountain, Jimi Hendrix, Heart, Led Zeppelin, Lacuna Coil, Leaves' Eyes, Rush, Evanescence, Candlemass, Dream Theater, Flyleaf, Janis Joplin, Otep, etc.

Goddess Heather Lee

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Pompey, England

I love it - and have been loving playing in bands for over 30 years! :)

I also teach French and English to various clients - and sometimes I teach a Multimedia course at McGill University.

Cheers and thanks, Jerry

Goddess Heather Lee

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Soon to be Pompey, England,
TEXAS

I think they take you a bit more seriously :)

Thanks, Jerry

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like i'd tell u!,
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1. Hopefully with more CDs out and having a great time playing live!

2. In 2003, with two other guys I had played with back in the 70s!

3. The "Altar of Peace" (Ara Pacis in Latin) is a monument in Rome that still exists to this day - it was built by the Emperor Augustus in 9 BC to celebrate a victory over the Germans and the ensuing peace.

4. (With the current lineup) To me the best were our Cafe Chaos show on 3 dec. 2005 - lots of energy and great communication with the crowd and our Hard Rock Cafe Montreal show of Feb. 10, 2006, overall musically one of the best. Worse one? Probably the 24 September St-Hubert benefit show - the auditorium's sound was awful and when we got there we realised there was absolutely no lighting, spots, nothing at all and had to jury-rig something the best we could. Also there was very little people for the size of the place (although the people that were there were great!)

Jerry

Ok I'll try my best to answer correctly (My english is not very good ) :P



1- All depends on the success we'll have; I'd like to say that AraPacis will still be alive but a lot of things can happen in 10 years...



2- Jerry wanted to create a band with an hybrid sound: 50% of 70's rock and 50% of today's metal. A bunch of musicians has contributed on the band since 3 years now, and like every bands AraPacis has known good and bad moments. Today things are going great !



3- AraPacis means "Altar to Peace". It's a real monument in Rome. You can have more infos here: http://www.arapacis.com/history.htm



4- For me the worse is also the better: We drove 300 km to play a half-an-hour set, then get paid with a bottle of water. But on the other side it was our first time on the road and we had a great time. :)



Oh: last saturday (15th April 2006) I broke a string and I had to play a whole song with only 3 strings. And While I was driving home after the show I get a flat tire, on the Champlain bridge at 1h AM! Grrrrrr!

Gab

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